Improve your LinkedIn profile with Pluralsight courses. Here’s an idea I’ve seen from some Pluralsight subscribers: List the courses you’ve taken directly on your LinkedIn profile.

In this post we'll focus on the best way to do this, but you can also apply the idea to other personal marketing mediums including your resume, cover letter, website, about.me page, github and Stack Overflow profiles. First, you might be asking why you'd want to do this. You may be worried that it seems pompous, or like information overload. But I’ve learned that if we don’t tell people who we are, and how they should see us, then they take whatever information they can find and perceive who we are based on that.

This perception becomes our personal brand.
Make Udacity Courses Stand Out with LinkedIn. As a part of career support for our Nanodegree cohorts, Francois (our Head of Marketing) and Jason (our Technical Recruiter) hosted an on-air talk for our Front-End Nanodegree students called “Stand out with LinkedIn.”

For anyone who doesn’t know, LinkedIn is a very valuable resource for job seekers and can be an incredibly effective tool for all professionals and students. Here are some pointers from the talk to help get you started with documenting your own professional journey.
Add Courses to Your LinkedIn Profile in 3 Easy Steps. I think it goes without saying that LinkedIn is a valuable social media tool for business, but how many of us are using it to its full potential?

There are so many great features in LinkedIn, like LinkedIn Answers, Groups, In Mail and Recommendations (to name a few). I could easily write a post about each. However I’m going to focus on one particular feature in this post that many of us could be utilising, but aren’t. Did you know that you can add the courses you’ve completed to your profile? It only takes a couple of minutes and a few simple steps (which I’ll cover below).
Adding Your Completed Courses to LinkedIn - Mijingo. By Ryan Irelan An important way to show ongoing professional improvement is by using LinkedIn’s Courses listing.

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In addition to traditional course materials such as filmed lectures, readings, and problem sets, many MOOCs provide interactive user forums to support community interactions among students, professors, and teaching assistants (TAs). MOOCs are a recent and widely researched development in distance education[1] which were first introduced in 2008 and emerged as a popular mode of learning in 2012.[2][3] Early MOOCs often emphasized open-access features, such as open licensing of content, structure and learning goals, to promote the reuse and remixing of resources. History[edit] What is a MOOC? Precursors[edit] Early approaches[edit] Tabulation of the significant differences between xMOOC and cMOOC.[11]

Embedded Systems Course. Learn how electronic gadgets are designed, developed, and built as embedded systems that shape the world.

This is a hands-on, learn-by-doing course that shows you how to build solutions to real-world problems using embedded systems. The course uses a bottom-up approach to problem solving, building gradually from simple interfacing of switches and LEDs to complex concepts like display drivers, digital to analog conversion, generation of sound, analog to digital conversion, graphics, interrupts, and communication. We will present both general principles and practical tips for building circuits and programming the microcontroller in the C programming language.

Calculate how many hours you spend meaninglessly checking Internet and you will be surprised – it takes a great part of every single day. Instead, why not spending a few minutes on something educational? Add these 15 amazing websites to your favorites and open them whenever you have time!
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